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Umfang: 1 Online Ressource (416 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-231-54021-6

Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Inhalt: Focusing on the role of law in Sino-Western encounters, Chen brings fresh insight to the legal disputes, cultural borrowings, and heated negotiations over imperial interests and sovereignty that profoundly shaped Sino-Western conduct in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book captures the cultural impact of the ever-shifting balance of economic and political power on the self-imagination of Euroamerican and Chinese actors in their contact zones and beyond

Anmerkung: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016) , In English

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Chinabild ; Recht

DOI: 10.7312/chen17374

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URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/chen17374

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Umfang: XII, 400 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

ISBN: 9780231173759 , 9780231173742

Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Inhalt: Imperial archives and historiography of western extraterritoriality in China -- Translation of the Qing code and colonial origins of comparative Chinese law -- Chinese law and society in the formation of European modernity -- Sentimental imperialism and the global spectacle of Chinese punishments -- Law and empire in the making of the first Opium War

Anmerkung: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index , Imperial archives and historiography of extraterritoriality in ChinaTranslation of the Qing code and colonial origins of comparative Chinese law -- Chinese law and society in the formation of European modernity -- Sentimental imperialism and the global spectacle of Chinese punishments -- Law and empire in the making of the first Opium War.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780231540216

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Westliche Welt ; Chinabild ; China ; Recht ; Geschichte 1740-1849 ; China Da-Qing-lüli ; Westliche Welt ; Recht ; Chinabild ; Geschichte 1740-1850

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=46754

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Umfang: 1 online resource : , 18 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780231540216

Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Inhalt: Focusing on the role of law in Sino-Western encounters, Chen brings fresh insight to the legal disputes, cultural borrowings, and heated negotiations over imperial interests and sovereignty that profoundly shaped Sino-Western conduct in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book captures the cultural impact of the ever-shifting balance of economic and political power on the self-imagination of Euroamerican and Chinese actors in their contact zones and beyond.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Imperial Archives and Historiography of Western Extraterritoriality in China -- , 2. Translation of The Qing Code and Colonial Origins of Comparative Chinese Law -- , 3. Chinese Law in The Formation of European Modernity -- , 4. Sentimental Imperialism and The Global Spectacle of Chinese Punishments -- , 5. Law and Empire in The Making of The First Opium War -- , Conclusion -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/chen17374

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/chen17374

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Umfang: 1 online resource (402 pages).

ISBN: 0-231-54021-3

Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Inhalt: How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity.Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Imperial Archives and Historiography of Western Extraterritoriality in China -- , 2. Translation of The Qing Code and Colonial Origins of Comparative Chinese Law -- , 3. Chinese Law in The Formation of European Modernity -- , 4. Sentimental Imperialism and The Global Spectacle of Chinese Punishments -- , 5. Law and Empire in The Making of The First Opium War -- , Conclusion -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-231-17374-1

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/chen17374